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Who You Gonna Call?Tara McKelvey
In the April issue of The American Prospect, Tara McKelvey explained how a pair of seasoned New York Mafia defense lawyers succeeded--while more respectable constitutional lawyers have failed--in defending the rights of American soldiers. In five recent cases, the same attorneys who formerly represented members of the Gambino crime family have won honorable discharges for soldiers contesting the Army's decision to redeploy them to Iraq under so-called stop-loss policies.
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